Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial PerspectiveDonka Minkova, Robert Stockwell The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of code-switching, phonology and metrics. |
Contents
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Mixedlanguage texts as data and evidence in English historical linguistics | 51 |
Dialectology and the history of the English language | 79 |
Origin unknown | 109 |
Issues for a new history of English prosody | 125 |
Folk poet or littérateur? | 153 |
A rejoinder to Youmans and Li | 177 |
How much shifting actually occurred in the historical English vowel shift? | 267 |
Restoration of a revisited | 283 |
Pragmatic uses of SHALL future constructions in Early Modern English | 301 |
Explaining the creation of reflexive pronouns in English | 325 |
The position of finite verb and adverbs | 355 |
How close was it to the Modern English perfect? | 373 |
Reporting direct speech in Early Modern slander depositions | 399 |
The emergence of the verbverb compound in twentieth century English and twentieth century linguistics | 417 |
On the development of English r | 183 |
Vowel variation in English rhyme | 207 |
Lexical diffusion and competing analyses of sound change | 231 |
Dating criteria for Old English poems | 245 |
A thousand years of the history of English | 449 |
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